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Featured Book: As You Are (2008)

Overview: I am an avid fan of historical fiction writer Sarah M. Eden. Usually, she writes Regency Era romances. The third book in Eden’s Jonquil brothers series, As You Are, takes place in Regency Era England and focuses on the quietest of the seven Jonquil sons, Corbin. Completely smitten with a widow Clara Bentford, who recently movedContinue reading “Featured Book: As You Are (2008)”

Featured Book: A Wind in the Door (1973)

Rather than talking about the more widely renowned A Wrinkle in Time (1962), I wanted to take a moment and appreciate its sequel, A Wind in the Door. I love the first three books in Madeleine L’Engle‘s Time Quintet and feel sad I never experienced these books as a child. I didn’t read them until I was in my mid-twenties. TheseContinue reading “Featured Book: A Wind in the Door (1973)”

Featured Book: The Cavendish Home For Boys and Girls (2012)

Overview: This story takes place in a small town with very particular, pretty people. Victoria, who prides herself on her perfect grades, tidy appearance, and successful parents, has only one friend Lawrence. Untidy, quiet but very talented musically, he one day disappears after acting very strangely at school. Unable to shake an uncomfortable feeling somethingContinue reading “Featured Book: The Cavendish Home For Boys and Girls (2012)”

Seeing a Man Better: Loving Vincent (2017), 4/4

Starry, starry nightPaint your palette blue and greyLook out on a summer’s dayWith eyes that know the darkness in my soulShadows on the hillsSketch the trees and the daffodilsCatch the breeze and the winter chillsIn colors on the snowy linen land Now I understandWhat you tried to say to meAnd how you suffered for yourContinue reading “Seeing a Man Better: Loving Vincent (2017), 4/4”

おもひでぽろぽろ(Omoide Poro Poro),Only Yesterday: Review and Self Reflection, 4/4

I think Peter Travers was right when he said, “What we have here is an animation miracle so subtle that it doesn’t fully hit you till you take it home and into your dreams.” The animation miracle he referred to was the movie Only Yesterday (1991). The plot revolves around Taeko Okajima, a 27- year old office worker leaving for a few weeksContinue reading “おもひでぽろぽろ(Omoide Poro Poro),Only Yesterday: Review and Self Reflection, 4/4”